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Spotlight on the Mobilier National

The innovative furnishings created under France’s centuries-old state-supported design program are celebrated in a pair of shows, including a small survey of pieces from the 1960s to the early ’80s at the New York gallery Demisch Danant

Pierre Paulin designed this 1968 table, with a painted-aluminum base and smoked-glass top, and 1971 leather sofa for the Élysée Palace in Paris.

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François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne’s Coffee Beans chair, 1971.

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A room devoted to pieces by Paul-Armand Gette in the “Décor et Installations” exhibition at the Galerie des Gobelins in Paris. The artist’s tapestry L’Embellie hangs on the left wall in the foreground.